A Time of One′s Own

“This is such a necessary account of how disrupted temporal encounters with feminism in, of, and through the archives of contemporary art can trouble received institutional histories of feminism in the present. The range of material covered is various, surprising, messy, and compelling. Catherine Grant skillfully weaves the threads that lead us to a time of our own in a compelling account of feminism, desire, and freedom in contemporary art.” - Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art

“Catherine Grant’s writing about feminist artists’ need to acknowledge their own history in the midst of both connection and disconnection, kinship and gatekeeping is exciting. Grant’s focus on contemporary feminist art across disjointed, intimate, and generative ‘moments of finding’ across time and space represents a new and necessary contribution to feminist art history. There’s nothing like this book in contemporary art scholarship.” - Maria Elena Buszek, editor of Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

"Grant’s evocative writing delineates the affective contours of collective art participation, and she vividly transports the reader with her on various expeditions – to an outdoor group performance in a wintry Trafalgar Square, to cacophonous choral readings of feminist texts or sitting alone on the last quiet days of a gallery exhibition. One of the true pleasures of the volume is its deep attentiveness to the textures, materials and experience of works of art, interwoven with the author’s compelling account of how cultural encounters strengthened her feminist consciousness."
  - Victoria Horne, Burlington Contemporary

"Grant’s writing opens avenues for imagining possible feminist pasts, presents, and futures." - Julia Alting, Trigger

“An original, associative and compelling account of archival fever and fandom in feminist practice … An exemplar for the ways we can, and should, learn together.”

"The undoubted importance of Grant’s book lies in the flexibility and breadth of the new set of terms and conceptual frameworks she applies to contemporary feminist art history. . . . The author’s transparent subjectivity and embrace of complexity offer up an authentically feminist work of scholarship predicated on her expansion of a familiar precept on her expansion of a familiar precept: 'The personal is the artistic is the professional is the political' (54)." - Jennifer S. Griffiths, Woman's Art Journal